Difference between token ring and Ethernet bus?

Answer 1

Token bus is as far as I know the theory that token ring's transmission is based on.

Both physical layers of networking, can be said that they were two competing set of networking technology, both initial members of IEEE 802.x networking family.

Token ring is based on passing packets along a track from one station to another like a passenger in a train, for fail-safe redundancy there were 2 duplicate tracks can be thought as one clockwise one counter-clockwise in a ringed/circular arrangement.

Ethernet is rather about shooting packets from source to destination. If there is another packet being shot a collision is this, the packets are lost and shooters agree to re-shoot at a random time hopefully and likely so avoid the collision again, but if it happens again do it again and again...

Answer 2

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Token Bus :-

1.) Token bus is a network implementing the token ring protocol over a virtual ring on a coaxial cable.

2.) Token Bus created by IBM to connect their terminals to IBM mainframes.

3.) Token Bus was a 4 Mbps Local Area Networking technology (IEEE 802.4).

4.) Token Bus networks were unreliable and difficult to expand and upgrade.

5.) It was cheaper than Token Ring.

6.) Here cheap Co-axial Cables are used.

Token Ring :-

1.) Token Ring is a local area network in which stations are logically organized in a ring topology.

2.) Token Ring was created by IBM to compete and to improve upon their previous Token Bus technology.

3.) Token Ring comes in standard 4 Mbps and 16 Mbps speed (IEEE 802.5).

4.) It is highly reliable and redundant as well.

5.) It comes with a higher price tag and more complex hardware.

6.) Here Shielded and Unshielded twisted-pair cables are used.

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